The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

FIRE the other evening destroyed the
Wabash round-house at Des Moines, Iowa,
containing thirteen locomotives. The loss
will scarcely fall below Sl00, 900, and may
exceed that sum.
CAPTAIN MYERS read the riot act to
all the Wnnebago settlers, and warned
them that if they returned after being
evicted they would be liable to three years
imprisonment and fine of $1,000.
THE Printing and Bleaching Company's
mills, in the village of Brookdale, West
Chester County, n. Y, were burned the
other morning. Loss, $150OOO. Four cylin.
der drying cans exploded, blowing down
the walls and creating panic in the neigh
borhoOd. No one was in jured.
MEASLES have been having q marvellous
run at Madison, Wis, over 400 cases being
reported by the city health officers. No
great harm was felt, as the weather was
favorable for the encouragement of mild
form of the disease. Scarlet fever was also
prevalent
DESPITE the vigilance of the police st.
Petersburg was recently placarded with
notices threatening with death all of the
members of the Imperial family, the judges
and Government officials, if the conspira-
tors, now under arrest, are sentenced to
capital punishment.
THREE young sons of George w. Hay
ward, q prominent merchant of Solomon
Island, in the southern part of Maryland,
were returning from visit across Chesa-
peake bay, when their boat capsized and
Frederick and Guy were swept away in the
darkness. Bernard, the youngest boy, clung
to the mast until daylight, when he lost his
hold and was drowned.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has addressed
ln1t 20 ~ Of hn Int On
the sequestration of public lands by rail
roads.
THE duel between editors of the Evening
States and Picay'ne, of New Orleans, did not
come off as expected.
JOHN DALTON, youth of twenty who
works in a printing office in New York,
and lives in Brooklyn, jumped from
the Brooklyn bridge at point near the
pier on the New York side recently. He
was picked up apparently unhurt by the
crew of a passing lighter.
A DISPATCH from Grenada, Miss, says:
''W. p. Fowler and Stivers, rector of the
Episcopal Church, had a difficulty in which
Stivers was probably mortally wounded.
The cause of the trouble was not ascer
tanned Stivers says Fowler's act was JUS
tifiable
CUSTOMS officers throughout Great
Britain and Ireland have received stringent
orders to search all vessels arriving from
America, China and the East, the Govern
ment having been warned that explosives
have been sent from San Francisco to ports
in the East to be transhipped to England.
Two hundred and fifty indictments
against eighty Bald knobbers were found
by the grand jury at Ozark, Mo.
THE Duke of Portland's country seat in
Ayrshire, Schtland, has been destroyed by
fire
NEAR BClham, Tex, recently, three small
children of j. T. Hale were burned to death.
The mother had gone some distance to OBJ
tain medicine for the eldest when the house
took fire with the above fatal results.
THE pictures for the British Academy ex-
hibition this year are of only average abil-
ity, and there is a marked absence of start
ling subjects.
THE graves of Confederate soldiers were
generally decorated throughout the South
on the Goth.
MARY HoAR and Maud Mcdonald were
thrown under the ore train on the Hecla q
Torch Lake railroad near Houghton, Mich,
recently, coupling PIN breaking. Miss
Hoar had her head cut from her body and
Miss McDonald's legs were crushed so
badly that amputation was necessary.
ANOTHER attempt was made on the 2Sth
by a mob to lynch Turner and Patterson,
the negro assailants of Jennie Bowman, at
Louisville, KY. Conflicts with the police
resulted, the mob being finally driven off.
ADvICEs from Kodiak, Alaska, bearing
date of April 5, state that the sealing
schooner Flying Scud, sailing from that
port, was lost at sea with all on board. The
owner, II. Anderson, Captain Nels Hansen,
Vasila Grignoff and his SON and fourteen
native hunters were lost.
AT Stendal, fifteen miles from Hunting
burg, Ind, four bows were poisoned recent
ly by eating wild parsnip in mistake tor
spinach. Three of the boys died few
hours after eating, while the fourth was re-
ported lingering in a hopeless condition.
THE Michigan Central and Canadian Pa
cifc roads have made an arrangement re-
garding interchange of business